DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP A Curriculum for the 21st Century: Potentials, Challenges, and A Way Forward Dr. Julie Coiro, University of Rhode Island Website | email: jcoiro@mail.uri.edu | Publications February 20, 2013

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Potentials

• Deeper Thinking
  • Doors to Diplomacy: Examples include Cyprus, Five Decades of OnGoing Saga and Haiti Ocean Project
  • Learning About Blogs from Langwitches Blog: Students Teaching Students (and Teachers) About Quality Blog Comments
• Personal Voice
  • Reader's Theater in Grade 1 (via Podbean.com)
  • RadioWillow Web: Podcast by Third Graders at Willowdale Elementary School on Native Americans
  • Generating Online texts such as The Children's Encyclopedia of Women (Grades 3-4 students)
  • Personal Service Announcements such as Anti-Bullying Awareness
  • Teachers share their voice too with lesson plans on Read, Write, Think (Changing the World With Public Service Announcements)
• Productive Collaboration
  • Productive Peer Collaborations During Online Inquiry - Castek, J, Coiro, J., Guzniczak, L., & Bradshaw, C. (2012).
    Examining peer collaboration in online inquiry. The Educational Forum, 76(4), 479-496.
    
    

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  • Collaborative Projects Uniting Students with Scientists: Animal Adaptations VoiceThread
    • Ask-An-Expert Voicethread and a second VoiceThread
• Changing the World
  • Google Science Fair

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Challenges

Challenge 1: New literacy skills required to locate, evaluate, synthesize, and communicate

• Leu, Castek, Hartman, Coiro, Henry, Kulikowich, & Lyver (2005). Research on instruction and assessment of online reading comprehension. In Block, Parris, & Afflerbach, (Eds.), Comprehension Instruction: Research-based best practices, New York: Guilford Press.
• Coiro (2011). Predicting reading comprehension on the Internet: Contributions of offline reading skills, online reading skills, and prior knowledge. Journal of Literacy Research.
• Coiro & Dobler (2007). Exploring the online comprehension strategies used by sixth-grade skilled readers to search for and locate information on the Internet. Reading Research Quarterly.

Challenge 2: Students struggle with online inquiry and research, especially critically evaluating multiple sources

• Pew Internet Study. (2012). How do teens do research in a digital world?
• Miller & Bartlett. (2012). Digital Fluency: Toward young people's critical use of the Internet
• Metzger & Flanigan. (2008). Digital media, youth, and credibility.
• Walraven, Brand-Gruwel, & Boshuizen (2009). How students evaluate information and sources when searching the world wide web for information. Computers and Education.

Measuring Online Inquiry with The Online Research & Reading Comprehension (ORCA) Project

• Leu, Kulikowich, Sedransk, and Coiro. (2012). The Online Reading Comprehension Project
  • View a video of a 7th grade student taking the ORCA-Closed Assessment "Are Energy Drinks Heart Healthy?"

Challenge 3: Difficulty meeting demands of a Participatory Culture

• New skills for play/problem-solving and simulation; collective intelligence; working across multiple texts and modalities; ethical use and responsibilities; social skills for increasingly public role as media makers and community participants (Jenkins, 2008)

Challenge 4: Adjusting to new teaching roles and supporting online reading dispositions as part of instruction

• Coiro, J. (2009). Promising practices for supporting adolescents’ online literacy development. In K.D. Wood and W.E. Blanton (Eds.). Literacy instruction for adolescents: Research-based practice (pp. 442-471). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  

  Coiro 2009 Promising Practices.pdf
  

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• Paying attention to online reading dispositions: Coiro, J. (2012, April). Digital Literacies: Understanding dispositions toward reading on the Internet. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 55(7), 645-648.
  

  Coiro 2012 JAAL Dispositions.pdf
  

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A Way Forward
Build your own knowledge needed to design instruction with technology...
The TPACK Model (Punya Mishra & Matthew Koehler, 2006)

Use the framework to network and collaborate with colleagues to take advantage of each other's areas of expertise.

Use the rest of today to meet other teachers to share ideas and collaborate with!